Re: Update on the status of Mckoi SQL

["Antonello Provenzano" <antonello@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Toby,

> Unfortunately I have to ask for a little more patience from you and the
> community on the next release of Mckoi.  I was hoping I'd have the code
> to give out by now, but adding the new features we wanted in this
> release has been a huge undertaking.

Mine was not intended to be a pressure to release the latest code of
the project: the meaning of my post was to better understand the
development stage of Mckoi, since no news about it were published in
recent times and, as I have experienced with some of my open-source
projects, that leads the community to switch (maybe you've seen some
of Mckoi users publicly admit their plan to stop using it) to rival
projects (such as Daffodil or Cloudscape).
I personally believe Mckoi is potentially one of the best RDBMS around
and that it'd be a shame to let it die: I would re-organize the
"marketing campaign" to promote it and make it know to the masses.

> The reason for the lengthy overhaul of the code was the introduction of
> a new 64 bit data storage system which I intend will be the final
> revision of the data storage system in Mckoi.  The new data store system
> is a complete rewrite and wraps all the low level database storage/query
> functionality into a simple interface which leads to many elegant ways
> to implement the higher level database functions.  What this means is
> the next version of Mckoi will be able to scale up to massive data sets
> and will have a very flexible index and list management function.

That is simply great since the introduction of a stronger data system
will make Mckoi a jump to a new step of its development and that
clarifies the time spent to develop it.
I'm really curious to watch at the results of your hard work.

> The code is slowly coming together and there will be a new release soon
> and it will be considerably more advanced than the current release.  I
> hope the quality of the code will speak for itself when it's done.

I bet 200$ on it. :)

Good luck again and many compliments.
Antonello


On 12/15/06, Tobias Downer <toby@mckoi.com> wrote:
> Hi Antonello,
>
> Unfortunately I have to ask for a little more patience from you and the
> community on the next release of Mckoi.  I was hoping I'd have the code
> to give out by now, but adding the new features we wanted in this
> release has been a huge undertaking.
>
> The reason for the lengthy overhaul of the code was the introduction of
> a new 64 bit data storage system which I intend will be the final
> revision of the data storage system in Mckoi.  The new data store system
> is a complete rewrite and wraps all the low level database storage/query
> functionality into a simple interface which leads to many elegant ways
> to implement the higher level database functions.  What this means is
> the next version of Mckoi will be able to scale up to massive data sets
> and will have a very flexible index and list management function.
>
> The data store code is finished.  The reason why the release hasn't
> happened sooner is because the change has not turned out to be an
> incremental revision of the codebase.  Most of the code that involves
> managing data and indexes has needed to be updated or rewritten and many
> of the higher level data management code has been effected in some way
> from the changes.
>
> The code is slowly coming together and there will be a new release soon
> and it will be considerably more advanced than the current release.  I
> hope the quality of the code will speak for itself when it's done.
>
> Toby.
>
> Antonello Provenzano wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm curious about the current status of the project: in a post dated
> > 26th October 2005 Tobias announced the project was still alive and
> > near to a new release.
> > Since then nothing happened and many users continuously comply about
> > the death of the project (that Tobias has always denied), trying to
> > find an alternative.
> >
> > Industrially a stable project that doesn't change large portions of
> > its code is a good choice, but the lack of improvements, bug fixing or
> > new features is a bad signal for the 'market'.
> >
> > Hope this post was not bothering anyone and will find a concrete response.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > Antonello
>
>
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